A Duke University lacrosse-team captain – slapped with a grand-jury indictment yesterday for allegedly raping a stripper during a booze-fueled party – immediately blasted the charges as “fantastic lies.”

“I look forward to watching them unravel in the weeks to come,” said a defiant David Evans, who just graduated from the scandal-scarred university in Durham, N.C.

Evans – the 23-year-old son of Rae Evans, a prominent Washington lobbyist and head of the Ladies Professional Golf Association – was indicted on charges of first-degree forcible rape, kidnapping and sexual offense.

He is the third player to be indicted in the racially inflamed case.

District Attorney Mike Nifong said he does not expect any more indictments, since the three are the only ones implicated by the evidence.

A 27-year-old black stripper has claimed that she was raped and beaten by three white men at a raucous party March 13 at an off-campus house that Evans shared with several other players.

Already indicted on the same charges were team sophomores Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J., and Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, L.I.

Evans, flanked by senior team members and his grim-faced parents at a news conference in front of the county magistrate’s office, angrily defended himself and his two alleged cohorts.

“You have been told some fantastic lies,” Evans insisted to the media. “I am absolutely innocent of all the charges brought against me.”

Evans, an economics major from tony Bethesda, Md., who graduated Sunday, said Seligmann and Finnerty also are innocent.

Defense lawyers have said DNA tests fail to link the alleged victim to any of the team’s white players.

Evans’ lawyer, Joseph Cheshire, said that while his client’s accuser identified the student as one of her attackers with “90 percent certainty” in a photo lineup, she added to authorities that she could only be 100 percent sure if she saw him with a mustache. Evans has never had a mustache, Cheshire said.

Evans said he also volunteered to take a lie-detector test for authorities. And when they declined, he took one on his own and passed, he said.

Before Duke, Evans attended the prestigious prep Landon School, where he was “an exemplary student and athlete,” headmaster David Armstrong said.

Evans has previously been charged with having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle last August and violating a city noise ordinance in another incident six months later.

Meanwhile, the sensational rape case has split the community, pitting black activists such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson against those Duke students who support the players. Several seniors even scribbled the team numbers of Seligmann and Finnerty on their caps at graduation over the weekend.

With Post Wire Services

PROSECUTION VS. DEFENSE

DNA

Prosecution: No traces of semen found in victim’s mouth or genital areas, although scrapings of genetic material from one of victim’s fake fingernails could link her to David Evans.

Defense: Evidence can’t definitively include or exclude him as suspect, so it’s flimsy at best.

PHOTO LINEUP

Prosecution: Victim indicates Evans was sporting mustache at time.

Defense: His lawyer says Evans “has never had a mustache.”

LIE-DETECTOR TEST

Prosecution: Unclear if authorities will perform one.

Defense: Evans says he’s already taken one administered by FBI expert hired by his lawyers – and passed.

QUOTE

‘It doesn’t mean nothing happened. It just means nothing was left behind.’

– D.A. Mike Nifong on apparent lack of DNA evidence

‘It did not happen… These allegations are lies. Fabricated. And they will be proven wrong.’